As China has experienced double-digit economic growth over the past 30 years, more than 300 million people have moved into its cities. These cities have seen and created an enormous amount of economic benefit, and their middle class residents have become avid consumers. Through this process, the relationship between people and food, and food waste, has changed. Whether attributable to increased…
With China’s rapidly changing demographics, including an expanding middle class, rapid urbanization, and an aging population, a significant shift in the country’s healthcare needs is expected to occur. Despite health sector expansion, major disparities still exist, affecting both rural and urban settings. While urban hospitals have undergone positive shifts towards advanced medical care, many stil…
Over the past decade, China’s cities have grown at an unprecedented rate. More than half of Chinese people now live in cities, and urban GDP per capita has risen almost 10% every year on average (World Bank, 2016). Over the last two decades, Shanghai alone has experienced high economic and population growth with average yearly growth of 7.2% over the last five years, and as part of this expansi…
Over the last few decades China has emerged as one of the world’s largest economies. Millions of individuals have experienced great increases in wealth and a subsequent rise in their standard of living. A natural phenomenon that occurs as countries develop is the growth of the aging population and by 2030 the Chinese elderly (65+ years old) are projected to account for 23% of China's population (…
Over the past 30 years, China has experienced unprecedented levels of economic growth and is now the world’s largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity, as well as the world leader in the manufacturing of mass-produced goods (World Bank, 2015). Much of this rise can be attributed to the capitalization of China’s vast manufacturing sector, characterized by the establishment of special econ…
Over the last 30 years, China’s economy has undergone a period of unprecedented growth, along with large and widespread changes to systems throughout the country’s economy, culture, and society. While not alone in this demographic shift, the growth and impact of China’s elderly population is particularly notable, with over 202 million people over the age of 60 as of 2014 (SCMP, 2014). In par…
While the world debates the impact of carbon emissions and the need to create binding agreements, China’s battle with air pollution has grown tangible enough to effectively catalyze stakeholders into action. With only six of China’s cities meeting the second tier of the National Environmental Air Quality Standards (NEAQS) in 2015, air pollution has become one of the biggest signs…
"With China’s plan to urbanize another 20-30 million people per year until 2030, there is little doubt that overall demand for energy will continue to grow for the next two decades. As will the size of the challenges that China faces with addressing the imbalances in its energy systems; a system that by some estimates will grow by more than 250% over the same time period." With our goal to prov…
